Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Unit 54: Humour: Mark Twain. Henry James and Cosmopolitanism.
- 1. - Introduction, Justification and Relevance of the Topic
- 2.- American Humour
- Hyperbole
- Satire
- 3.- Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain, 1835-1910)
- Realism
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Satirical novel, first genuinely American.
- 4.- Cosmopolitanism
- Americans in Europe.
- Some Americans went abroad as journalists. Others were employed as editors.
- American authors published in the UK first to protect themselves from pirate British publishers.
- The great majority, of course, were tourists or temporary visitors.
- Others crossed the ocean to give lectures or make cultural pilgrimages.
- 5.- Henry James (1843-1916)
- - Daisy Miller - The Portrait of a Lady - Roderick Hudson
- 6.- Conclusion and Teaching Implications
- 7.- Bibliography